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fol xiii.-thirb series salisbuey n c october 27 1691 no 2 ihe carolina watchman , â– _, 1.1-111.1 in the year 1832 pr-n fi fll.30 in adva-si e finhteact advertising rates tv ' rficiti y 20 is i n-onvh in s bit's 6 m*s urn's < . .,, r . -,â€ž f .....,, p 00 ' l>ne'Â«r : v 60 5.25 7.50 12.00 twc t"r , '.â€ž ,-. na 7.50 11.00 lr..<i0 tlirect"r â€¢ i5(j 9.oo 13.50 18.00 ; a vs is ss ss t remember the dead ! john s idtchinsoir j dkalki ns italian ana american marble monuments tombs and gravestones i mu ,,, 1 vi uv dksi i.iptiox , â€” , ai.ir,l marble-worker ii enables raeciuina an piece of work from the , i-;-1 ;. ;, ,â€ž,â€žâ€ž-... i per f â– â€¢ '--"- jill e given le llie ino*l exacting patum ; ill and examine mv slock and price be i ii rices . . â– dâ€ži_n â€ž,,<! climates for any desired work jilhe^miklieil on application al next door wj.d.mcneÂ«l.vv<lore n.c.,ma,ch 9,1881 e r crawford k co ' are selling l bin dj 1 farm and fact0ey iii k blasts fcarips and caps tbe fioest rifle poweir _.__. lagons wacni wagons r ign di ike and buggies from r mm beltti tap mowere horso hakes c salisbury 1 in 6 lt.81 ly zb ws e w ii bailey vancr & bailey attorneys and counsellors < hjlllo ll n c practice in supreme court of the united state supreme court of nortli carolina federal court and conn t ies ol mecklenburg union gaston uowan and david on 6fsxj mice â€¢ w 0 doors east ol indepen dence sq 33:1 1 -'â€¢ m kecobkle tilko i kt.uttz mccorkle & kluttz attorneys and counselors salisbury n c i^offiee on council street opposite the cÂ«btthou.e 7:giu keuri hai l ic ( i.l-.i i.nt 1 craige & clement sutonmis at i5au re salisbury n c fi || 23 s 0v3?.k__ut attoryey 17 1.1 i salisbury >.<:., state and federal 12:6m {. blata ni henflerson attorneys counselors and solicitors salisbury n.c ht__ay22 i 879 t deferred items an _â€”_^_^â€” i â€” â€” couuty superintendent's report the county superintendent of schools reports that up to date he has examined and approved fifty-five teachers whose grade colors and sex are as follows : 12 colored teachers of whom 4 are j males and 8 females and of whom lie found oue worthy of the first grade one of the second grade two of the third and eight ofthe special or lower third grade 43 whites of whom i are males and 12 i j females divided as follows fifteen first grade twenty three of the second three j of the tin id and two of the special third tliere are also several teachers in the county who hold certificates from the county examiner which have not yet ex pired we have then nearly the requisite number of white teachers with which to begin the schools in xovi'inbe and prob ably tic colored normal will furnish enough for the colored schools supple mented with those already licensed c2k_.cs repobts ofthe children of row an us _ â– ven mi for 881 : wbhe males 2209 fen aies,2151,tc.al 5860 col'd " 917 " sÂ«j0 â– â€¢ 1307 grand total olg7 cf.o u mcneill s ipt wi i ca i !â– now orleans report of the cotton crop new orleans oct 15 the following is a bu miliary of special dispatches to the democrat voin all portions of the south showing the coudiiion of the cotton crop to da.i : alabama tiie weal hei has been line for picking but some damage reported from tlie worm ivhii ii appealed ; tiiiee-.brrths of a crop i i'l be produced three-fourths ol li lias beeu gathered a i kansas the weather is very fa volatile the yield a compared with last year is about fil per cent short damage being done by drought and nylin the second growth of cotton produced by the recent rail's has proved more productive than the lirst louisiana the weather has been ab mi ruble for pickiug and labor abundant the en tile crop will be picked by the end of ihe month the second growth of cot ton has proved delusive the general condition is better thau it was two weeks ago mississippi the prospects of the cotton crop have materially improved during the last two weeks the weather is line and picking is progressing eighty per cent of the crop is already picked there will be about three-fourths of a crop raised texas there have been frequent rains but picking has progressed aud t of the crop is picked only a half crop will be raised texxessee the weather has been rainy interfer ing with picking which however will be all through with by november 1 a child cruelly beaten a little white girl 1*2 years old came saturday afternoon to the clerk of the superior court and said she had been cruelly beaten by a woman to whom she had been bound out some weeks before upon each check she showed a long black bruise aud her eyes were blood-shot she innocently pulled down her stockings and every inch of her legs wero covered by the same black bruises as those upon her cheeks the sime raw hide had made them all and the child said her body would snow others like them lint lest tliere might be still sonic doubt as to whether it was the work of a savage she pointed to her ear in which were the deep imprints of teeth she held up her hand and showed ihe marks of the same fangs the child said that a dish had been broken and th it her mistress had accused her she had told her that a cat had thrown the dish down and broken it but the woman would not believe her she became furious and after vainly trying to gel her husband to tie her tho child so that she might be beaten to better ad vautage had fallen on her fiercely with a raw hide and becoming maddened as she plied the heavy rod had in the*extreini tv of her rage bitten her victim with the fury ofa mad dog the case was tried before a justice of the peace yesterday and the woman was lined g after a substantial i stablish ment of the facts as related by the child the clerk of the court removed the girl from the custody of her mistress names are withheld at the request of the justice who.says that he knows the woman to be quite respectable aside from the consideration of her somewhat violent temper charlotte observer i â– the color and lustre of youth are restor ed to faded or gray hair by the use of par ker's hair balsam a harmless dressing high ly esteemed for its per.umc and purity * o.i.-nuvl atlanta exposition the international cotton exposition at atlanta georgia was formally opened < october 5 among the thousands of visi tors present were many representatives of the north and west the assemblage i was called to order by govet nor colquitt ; after prayer by bishop elliott of texas \ the buildings and grounds were prcscnt ! cd to the exposition association by di i rector general kimball in responding governor colquitt highly complimented j the executive committee and expressed | the belief that the energy bestowed in the development of the enterprise thus far had never been exceeded all the space in the several large buildings has been taken but a fortnight must elapse before all the exhibits can be in place nud iu presentable condition after the ma chinery was started senator vance of north carolina delivered an address of welcome on behalf of the southern peo ple senator voorliees of indiana fol lowed with an oration in which he tool strong grounds in favor of the develop ment of southern industry through the fostering influence of a protective tariff free trade said he i.s a seductive sound that can mean nothing except where it is purely reciprocal and exists between nations of equal strength it is the duty ofthe government to protect its own industries before it practices benevo lence this is the first world's fair ever held in the south and while it properly takes it name from the leading southern pro duct its scope includes all the material interests of the southern states the . two hundred aud twenty-two classes of exhibits are distributed in forty-one groups arranged in six departments the lirst four of which arc for competitive ex ; liibition and awards the other two for exhibition only these departments are j i productive machinery implements processes etc ii natural products es , pecially textile products iii mannfac j tniing u.achiuery chiefly textile etc iv manufactures v miscellaneous natural products vi non-textile ma chinery and in an u fact u res art products etc the site of the fair i.s oglethorpe park which covets fifty acres just outside the city the buildings cover more than twenty acres the number of exhibits hav ing vastly exceeded anything at first con templated the exhibits pertaining to cotton its cultivation handling and in a nu fact u re are beyond comparison su perior to anything ever seen before the wealth of general exhibits is not less a surprise to all particularly rich is tlie show of minerals woods and other natu ral products of the south the execu tive committee announce the following special weekly exhibitions fruits and dowers commencing octo ber 25 cattle and mules commencing november 1 ; sheep and swine commenc ing november 8 bench show of dog commencing november 15 poultry etc commencing november 22 j dairy pro ducts commencing november 2d october 27 is set down for governors day it being expected that the state governors in attendance at the yorktown centennial celebration will that day vis it the exposition accompanied by their several staffs â€” scientific american peck's advice to daughters come here sis and sit down beside ine and let me give you a little talking to i want to talk to you about your mother it may be you have noticed a careworn look upon her face lately of course it has not been brought there by any fault of yours still it is your duty to chase it away 1 don't mean for you to run at it and shake your skirts and hol low shoo as you would a hen nor do i expect you to get on the other side of the fence and throw old oyster cans and pieces of barrel staves at it but i want you to get up to-morrow morning and get breakfast and when your mother comes down and expresses her surprise go right up to her and kiss her in the mouth you can't imagine how it will brighten up her dear old face her face iias far more wrinkles in it than yours yel if you were sick that lace would ap pear far mmc beautiful than that of an angel as it hovers over you watching every opportunity to minister to your comfort and evciy one of those wrin kle would seem to be bright wave lets of sunshine chasing each other over the dear old face those burdens if not lifted irom her shoulders will break her down there tliere don't cry ; she has not left you yet she is down in the kitchen stringing beans for dinner and if yon feel so badly you might go down into the kitchen and tin ish them and let her change her dress and rest an hour before dinner and after dinner take down her hair aud do it np for lit r you i need not wind it over your tingcr and i cuss to make spitcurls as she used to do t wiih yours but give it a good brushing : and wind up gently and tenderly as if i you enjoyed doing it for her the young i man down in the parlor can wait until you have performed these duties if he i cxpiesses any impatience you may ex plain to him that you feel under more i obligations to your mother than you do j â– to him 1 the fall of david davis washington po.t dem we have always desired to enter tain a high opinion of judge david davis his motives and his procedure even when we have been compelled to doubt the wisdom of the one or the potency of the orther but we must confess that the course pursued by that gentleman yesterday is so thoroughly at variance with his fre quent solemn protestations that it can only be attributed to an almost insane ambition to crouch beneath the shad ow of the presidency or to induce ments which while they will occur to very many thoroughly impartial ob servers we will not without larger provocation put into enduring print although frequently predicted we have never been willing to believe that judge davis would permit him self lo be elevated â€” if elevatiod itcan be called â€” to any position by the meanes lately employed baltimore gazette dem the act of the republicans in de posing mr bayard and electing to the presidency of the senate judge davis of illinois will brand with in famy the corrupt leaders of the re publican party it is another nail in the presidential coffin in 1884 driven deeply and firmly by the men who stole the presidency and who uu blusliingly bartered political patron age in exchange for the vote of the virginia traitor whatever respect honest men may have had for judge davis integrity has been swept away now that he has permitted himself to be used as a pliant tool in the hands of republicans and descended to the low level of mahone ilo knew that with out his vote mr bayard could not have been unseated aud as tliere was every reason to believe that judge davis would not lend his vote to elect mr anthony or any other republi can they with characteristic cunning shamelessly offer him the prize in the lottery of assassination as mr edmunds terms it ; and he forgetful of his honor and manhood accepts and like mahone exchanges his in dependence for the comparatively pari try office philadelphia times ind 1 he democrats forgot that the re publicans are politicians like them selves that they have already bowed down into the slime and mire of re pudiation to capture the political free booter mahone that david davis is only mortal with a great deal of hu man nature in his composition ; that his one dream is of the presidency and that he is the devoted friend of the new stalwart president and for getting these things the democrats marched into the republican camp for wool and came back not only mi nus booty but shorn of all they pos sessed an address by the popeâ€”deplor ing i is fate rome oct 17 the pope in his ad dress to the italian pilgrims at st pe ters yesterday stated that the deplorable state of affairs placed before him the alternative of enduring continual captivi ty made harder daily or of going into exile he therefore asked the catholics to watch and pray for the liberty and in dependence of the pope lie concluded by saying that lie was no longer secure in his palace that he was outraged iu a thousand ways the gravity and earn estness of the pope made a profound im pression he closed his address with arms raised lo heaven as though implor ing help london oct 17 a dispatch from rome to the times says it is impossible to describe the enthusiastic cheer after the pope gave his benediction ou the above occasion the pope looked thin worn and anxious a gang of roughs pelted the pilgrims leaving the church of st vitale shouting down with the vatican the first electkic railway in great britain ground was broken the last of september at portrush ireland for an electric railway to the giant's causeway dr siemens is said to be a large contributor to the new enterprise it is estimated that the expenses for haul age 011 a tramway such as this with horses would be twenty-three cents per mile and by steam about fifteen cents while it is supposed that the working expenses by an electrical motor will not reach two cents per mile ht man skeleton discovered says the asheville citizen our correspondent at webster writes 11s that that usually quiet town is all excitement over the dis covery ofa human skeleton our cor respondent says as some railroad hands were turning the road on the farm of mr w a dills three miles below webster they exhumed a complete skel eton with a bullet hole in the forehead lt iias apparently been in the ground sev ; eral years curiosity is on tiptoe to know ' who once owned these bones who is , ' missing can anybody tell .** miscellaneous the census returns show that the j southern cotton mills make finer goods on the average than those of new england earning eleven cents a yard for the goods turned out bv them i whereas the new england mills get only eight and a half cents the commissioner of agriculture ofi v irginia makes the sensible suggestion that every person in that state over * ten years of age should celebrate the yorktown centennial this year by plant ing a tree waluut is reccommeniled somewhere in the yard field roadside or forest the idea is a good one so good that its application 6hould not be limited to this year nor to the state of virginia sensational journalism is something to which we do not aspire and it is with ! much regret that we ever publish anything j relating to crime especially in our own j midst we always sift reports until wc feel satisfied of their truth and even then we are sometimes betrayed into error we are glad to state in this connection that mr slierrill kincaid whom we recently re ported as murdered by his wife in burke i not dead the report was generally cur rent here for a week as we published it indeed his neighbors and friends went to his funeral on sunday following his wound ing and found him although much bruis ed up quite a lively corpse there are hopes of his recovery lenoir topic the raleigh recorder says : the artesian well at durham is now about 1,000 feet deep the drill has passed through ma ny kind of rock at a depth of about jo feet they came upon rock in whicli was imbedded round stones about the size of marbles and as hard asllint many peo ple are surprised to learn that the drill does not turn as an ordinary drill does but works up aud down with a tremen dous weight upon it the principle is the same as that employed by a wood pecker in drilling a hole iu a log we learned from mr smith the operator that the question is being considered as to the plausibility of digging one at ral eigh for the post ollice and the city he says that it cau bo done for about 8,000 and tvill supply the whole city with good water we found the other day in walking thro the woods on mulberry great quantitii i of black locks scattered about almost as heavy as iron and rich with the iron ore wliich they contained not only is iron abundant iu that section of the county imt nearly every mineral and precious me tal in the catalogue may be found all over this and the adjoining counties and little or no attention is paid to the fact we suggest that a local mineralogical society be formed in lenoir to collect specimens of every kind of valuable ore lying around loose in our midst in the meantime until such a society is formed bring in your specimens to us and we will label them keep them safely and occasionally publish a li_t of what we have on hand when the society is formed wc will turn over our stock to them wc are in earnest â€” lenoir topic fighting fire detroit free press learning that at no 33 rowland street a young woman could be found who had passed through the perils of the terrible forest fires 011 the huron peninsula a reporter for the free press sought her out miss kittie lews is a domestic at the above men tioned place in her personal appear ance there is nothing to indicate the energy courage and heroism she has displayed when those qualities were most need there is no suggestion of strong-mindedness in her appearance the set deter nined features and dauntless eye are not there she is merelv a womanly woman ; above the average height well formed with light brown hair and eyes ; but beneath that calm exterior lies an indomitable will and heroic devotion to duty in.dwight township huron county in a small log house lived and thanks to miss lewis still live her aunt mrs christopher armstead mr armstead his mother now 102 years of age and four small children he is now a cripple having been a sufferer for a long time they were very poor even before the fire but mrs armstead assisted by her two little boys cultivated their small farm as best the could and managed to provide the family with food miss lewis has assisteel them with shoes and clothing a short time previous to the fires she went to dwight to visit her rela tives and was there through the ter rible ordeal her narration of her personal experience is thrilling in the extreme she states a fact that has been widely denied ; that the farmers light ed the fires that left many of them homeless and penniless there had been no rain for a long time and everything was as dry as tinder all around them the settlers had been for days burning brush upon their newly cleared land her uncle had remark et that it was contrary to law to build forest fires at such a time but appre hended no danger until sunday the 4th inst on that day she asked him to drive her out to mr carle's a neighbor he replied that the wins lows near neighbors were burning large tracts oi underbrush and he was afraid to leave home ou monday morning the 5th the air was thick with smoke that was rising in black clouds from the forest just beyond her uncle's clearing she asked him if there was anv danger to which he replied : that stubble pointing to his wheat field that skirt ed the woods will burn like pine sticks soon theflames could be seen i and before noon the fences were on ; fire and the two women went to the â– ' fields and commenced tearing tliem j down in a fruitless endeavor to stay the progress of the flames liy noon j they were back at the house battling i for their lives but for the ruddy j glow of the conflagration it was as i dark as midnight balls of tire large i piece of bark and even glowing | boughs of hemlock brush fell all j around them and for hours miss lewis dashed through the thick smoke j extinguishing these brands with pails of water stamping them out with her feet until her shoes were burned away and her hose partially consum ed and her feet blistered to protect her person she drenched her clothing at short intervals and protected her head by tying a wet skirt over it the smoke was blinding to the eyes pain ful to the lungs and at times so dense that they were obliged to breathe through wet towels during the afternoon and monday night those two women succeeded in extinguishing every fire that kindled near them no stop no rest ; no time to partake of food even and every moment saw the encircling of flame drawing closer to its victims tues day morning despite their most des perate exertion the hay stacks barns and other outbuildings were licked up everything was gone but the log house the walls of that were so hot as to burn the hand the current bush es and other shrubbery in the garden and around the house burst into flames and the intrepid women tore them from the ground with their blis tered hands and trampled out the fire they brought water from the wells and dashed it upon the walls of the smoking house they soaked blankets and spread them over the roof when the hayricks caught fire mr armstead abandoi.e lhope not so the determined women they redoubled their exer tions working with frantic energy as the day advanced their terrible struggles hick of food and rest began to tell upon their strength the wafer in the well began lo come up muddy should that fail theie would be no hope and all the lime the cordon of flame was creeping nearer it scorched their faces and caused steam to arise from their drenched garments to struggle longer was of no avail death seemed inevitable to the south of the house there was a small plat of green corn its comparative freshness looked inviting to their inflamed and half-blinded eye balls and thither the entire fami ly grandmother children all went as they believed to die they threw themselves upon their knees and prayed iu anguish prayed that god would avcit the terrible fate that was impending and still the devouring circle drew marcr then tliere came a reaction and miss lewis arose from her knees with a heroic resolve to die if die she must battling with the deetroyer she could not bear the / thought of her body being found where people would say that she cowered iu ftar in the corn she would much rather they would say that she died fighting the fiend to the bitter end and she hoped tliere would be something in the position of her body to mutely tell her story she roused her aunt infused her with some of her own grim determination and again they rushed to repel the foe miss lewis observed that the fire would burrow beneath the turf for several feet and then burst forth at unexpected points to guard against the insidious approaches they dug a trench around the house with hoes and poured in water and then through that terrible thursday night they threw water upon the house mrs armstead bringing it from the well while miss lewis with a basin dashed it upon the roof wednesday morning still found them working with unflagging energy though their exhausted frames were weak and tot tering and their eyes were so infl.in.ed that they could but dimly see each other at 10 o'clock the wind shifted and a light rain fell their terrible vigil was over the longest night he ever passed â€” dick frank had quite an experience one night during liis recent hunt he got lost one evening in the think chapparel and deemed it pru dent to camp over night just as he had comfortably fixed himself for a ni^lit freeze out under au over 9 spreading sapling two large cinna mon bears commenced rooting a few yards from him having appeased their hunger on the succulent root they laid down to sleep and kept the hunter company till near daylight as dick was not hunting bear he did not shout nor sleep tnucli either he avows that it was the longest night he ever passed in all bb bom days white fine | ca ) ai ws current comment wilmington star there is oue view to be taken of the superseding of mr bayard bv senator davis it relieves tlie dein oera.ii of a great deal of responsibility they can go before the country in 1884 without being handicapped with the failure of political measures and with the great steal of 1876 unaveng ed and the corruptions of the depart ments unpurged and indeed not thor oughly exposed it can go before the country upon a fight for a tariff for revenue for econotnv in the gov ernment for equal rights to all f..r the niaiutainance of the constitution and the union so much imperilled by the centralizing tendencies and the wide-spread corruptions of the re publican party the xew york xeics democrat takes this view : mr bayard can make himself as useful to his party iu his seat as sen ator as he could in the position of presiding officer ; and mr davis who is undoubtedly sincere in his political independence can be depended upon to preside i with dignity ability and ;â– partiality the democratic senators were in the right iu electing one of their num ber wfoen they bad the power to do so but they are probably just as well satisfied with the situation as it is washington post dem president pro tempore davis has un doubtedly become aware by this time of the duties which he owes to the party which gave him the right to call the senate to order and preside over its sessions the resolution of mr edmunds relating to the contin uation of the committees as they were organized last session also provided that the president pro tempore should till such vacancies as existed mr davis did fill those vacancies on yes terday and instead of exercising the the slightest prerogative in the prem ises he merely read a list prepared for him by a republican caucus which assigned none but republicans to the places s'ot only were the new republican senators provided for but mr teller was transferred from one committee to another a republican was put in his place and hav icy ob tained an additional committee ap pointment had all these vacancies been filled by democrats that party then would have been in a majority on only about two-fifths uf the com mittees though numbering half the seriate so far mr davis's independ ence manifests itself in obeying edicts of republican caucuses there is not an honest man in all this laud who would not rather be a thousand times thomas f bayard sans pear sans reproache than david davis besmirched in hi good name by his sell-out said the revolution ary republicans : let us lmve a man about us hat is fat.n we confess that davis disappoints us we knew he was very ambitious for it was his ambition that lost tilden his seat if he had remained nn the supreme bench tilden would not have been cheated by the radicals out ofthe presidency but alas his ambition was too great for his virtue for such thi.igs i.i a false disloyal knave are tricks of custom but in tm'/i that's just they are close deuotementa working irom the bear that rci_-i i cannot rule ah ambition ambition what a master art thou and what sting thou earnest how many have been ruin ed while kneeling at thy footstool ! â€” wtl ming j n star a north carolina negro at the ecumenical conference col walter chirk in christian advocate the colored delegates to this con ference showed what i have noticed before that if that race has a gift above all others it is in the oratorical line they are as a rule good speak er but an exceptional speaker an orator who would do credit to any as sembly is â€” fn gei i is knows no col orâ€”the rev j c price of north carolina i speak the litteral fact when i say that no man i:i his con ference containing so many gifted speakers as it did has so impressed himself as the born orator as he yes he has not spoken often nor obtru sively and his very modesty induced one to say this much he ha made more of a sensatio.i here than he did at the temperance convention in ral eigh and many of our retdcrs will rememb.r the impression he produced there he will stay in this country till next may 1 learn lecturing to raise funds for a colored college in concord ai d i hope he will be suc cessful